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Il nome della rosa
Umberto Eco
publisher: , 1980

translated as:
The Name of the Rose
publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1983
translation: William Weaver

refered to by:
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Michel Tournier

The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo

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Jorges Luis Borges

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Orhan Pamuk


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In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate charges of heresy against Franciscan monks at a wealthy Italian abbey but finds his mission overshadowed by seven bizarre murders.


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BOOKS BY UMBERTO ECO:

The Name of the Rose
1980
In 1327, Brother William of Baskerville is sent to investigate charges of heresy against Franciscan monks at a wealthy Italian abbey but finds his mission overshadowed by seven bizarre murders.
Baudolino
2000
It is 1204, and Constantinople is being sacked and burned by the knights of the fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.
Foucault's Pendulum
1988
A wily group of editors devises a mock formula for tapping the mystical powers of the universe, only to set off a series of mysterious disappearances.
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